A man fatally shot his wife and another man in a hospital courtyard before committing suicide Saturday afternoon, police said. The slayings happened outside Kingwood Medical Center's emergency room, said Houston Police Department spokeswoman Sylvia Trevino. The man shot his wife and another man numerous times with a high-caliber revolver before turning the gun on himself, Trevino said. The identities of the three were not released.

The Sports Xchange Reed has $50K in cash stolen from his car in Houston Free agent safety Ed Reed had $50,000 in cash stolen from his car while visiting banks in Houston, the Houston Police Department confirmed Thursday. Click2Houston.com reported that someone smashed the window of Reed's gray 2006 Audi on Wednesday and took a bag of cash out of the front seat. A Houston Police Department spokeswoman told NFL Media that Reed withdrew the money from one bank...

"The Driver's Security Book," the latest in Shell Oil Co.'s Answer Book series, contains tips from the Houston Police Department, National Safety Council and Crime Prevention Consultants for motorists who are being followed or otherwise threatened. The booklet, along with five other titles-"Early Warning," "Emergency Repair" "Environment," "Driving Skills" and Better Mileage"-are available free from any Shell station or by calling 1-800-331-3703 or writing Shell Answers, Shell Oil Co., Dept.

(Adds details from New York, Wisconsin and Texas shootings) By Chris Francescani NEW YORK, Dec 24 (Reuters) - A gunman who spent 17 years in prison for murder ambushed and killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others on Monday near Rochester, New York, as they responded to a house fire he deliberately set, police said. William Spangler, 62, shot and killed himself after a gunfight with a police officer in Webster, a Rochester...

The Sports Xchange Reed has $50K in cash stolen from his car in Houston Free agent safety Ed Reed had $50,000 in cash stolen from his car while visiting banks in Houston, the Houston Police Department confirmed Thursday. Click2Houston.com reported that someone smashed the window of Reed's gray 2006 Audi on Wednesday and took a bag of cash out of the front seat. A Houston Police Department spokeswoman told NFL Media that Reed withdrew the money from one bank...

Dec 24 (Reuters) - Two on-duty police officers were shot and killed in separate incidents in Wisconsin and Texas on Monday, according to police and media reports, a deadly Christmas Eve for first responders across the United States. The shootings in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and in Houston came the same day that a gunman shot dead two firefighters and wounded three at a house fire in upstate Webster, New York. Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena, 30, was...

HOUSTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was detained early on Saturday after he resisted arrest outside a popular downtown Houston entertainment complex, police said. The National Football League player was held on $1,000 bail at a Houston jail, according to the Houston Police Department's website. The site said he was booked on a charge of resisting arrest. A police spokesman did not immediately return...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was detained for resisting arrest early on Saturday after he refused to leave a Houston nightclub at closing time and shoved an off-duty police officer, police said. The off-duty officer, who was working a security assignment at Bayou Place, asked Peterson, 27, and others in his group several times to leave the downtown club at around 2 a.m., Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith said. ...

New York Police Commissioner, Lee P. Brown, who put more uniformed officers on foot patrol but encountered a corruption scandal in the ranks of the nation's largest police department, is resigning to care for his ailing wife. Brown submitted his resignation Sunday night at Gracie Mansion, effective Sept. 1. First Deputy Commissioner Raymond Kelly, a 29-year veteran, will be acting commissioner, said Mayor David Dinkins on Monday. Brown, who headed the Houston Police...

HOUSTON, July 7 (Reuters) - Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was detained early on Saturday after he resisted arrest outside a popular downtown Houston entertainment complex, police said. The National Football League player was held on $1,000 bail at a Houston jail, according to the Houston Police Department's website. The site said he was booked on a charge of resisting arrest. A police spokesman did not immediately return...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson was detained for resisting arrest early on Saturday after he refused to leave a Houston nightclub at closing time and shoved an off-duty police officer, police said. The off-duty officer, who was working a security assignment at Bayou Place, asked Peterson, 27, and others in his group several times to leave the downtown club at around 2 a.m., Houston Police Department spokesman Kese Smith said. ...

A thief found out the hard way that robbing a woman isn't the best way to capture her heart. Two men robbed a U-Haul store in Wisconsin on Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner. But instead of fleeing, one man lingered and tried to strike up a conversation with the woman he had just robbed. "He stuck around and was trying to get the female employee's number," said U-Haul general manager Patrick Sobocinski. "She said he was just saying, 'Hey baby, you're pretty...

Two on-duty police officers were shot and killed in separate incidents in Wisconsin and Texas on Monday, according to police and media reports, a deadly Christmas Eve for first responders across the United States. The shootings in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and in Houston came the same day that a gunman shot dead two firefighters and wounded three at a house fire in upstate Webster, New York. Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena, 30, was found shot and killed early on...

In case anyone in the nation's fourth-largest city ever thought otherwise, the people of Houston now know that their police officers cuss. They cuss at meetings. They cuss at each other. Even the chief cusses. The question, though, that has left the Houston Police Department in turmoil for the past two months is whether the chief lied about his cussing. Normally, such an offense might not matter, but because Chief Clarence Bradford is accused of lying about cussing while under oath, his career...